[MPlayer-users] How to update/refresh codecs.conf?

[Horváth István]

> Hello,
>
> I have spend almost all the night reading de FAQs and this list on how
> to get Mplayer to recognise the Divx-libs I have installed.
>
> In the FAQ it almost everywhere says update/refresh your codecs.conf but
> it doesn't say HOW.
>
> I tried ldconfig and made sure the paths to the libs are in the right
> files, but still no sign of win32 or divx in codecs.conf.
> I deleted the ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf so it would use only the
> /etc/codecs.conf
>
> I tried to ./configure the Xmas-version of Mplayer, but it kept giving
> me sooo much warnings and errors (png, gtk etc, while I have that all
> installed, including the devel-packages)
>
> In the end I reinstalled the rmp of 0.90rc3 that Suse 8.1 provided, but,
> as said, it doesn't recognises Divx :-(
>
> So, please help me by telling what I am doing wrong here and/or what I
> should do (edit or run) to get Mplayer recognise Divx.

i think you should be more specific, but if i understand you correctly,
you installed mplayer from precompiled binary package, right?

if so, i suggest you to remove it, and download the sources, binary
codecs(win32,...) and compile it....

./configure --help will help you a lot!

cd <mplayer_source_dir>
so ./configure;make ; <be_root> make install;

and there is a README file in mplayer_source_dir, which will help you a
lot, if you are a newbie!

HTH